Bank Of Scotland, 8 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 8 English Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- turning-lantern-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 8 English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2BT
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 760
- Coordinates
- 55.06801, -3.60949
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 8 English Street in Dumfries, was designed by William Railton of Kilmarnock and built between 1875 and 1877. This Italianate bank building features three storeys and five bays, constructed from red ashlar stone with a shallow channel-jointed finish, except for the base course and the apron area of the first floor.
The ground floor is characterized by arched windows with keyblocks, and on the right side, there is a porch supported by Corinthian columns and adorned with a balustrade and a pulvinated laurel frieze, leading to an arched door. The first floor boasts large windows with stout cast-iron lintels, which are architraved and also feature pulvinated laurel friezes. The second floor windows are segmental-headed, with ante-fixae recessed between them. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice and a balustraded parapet that includes finialled dies. The windows are fitted with single-pane sashes, and there are end stacks with a concealed roof.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 8 English Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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